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16125
Level 19 Chipist
Modus Ponens
 
 
 
post #16125 :: 2011.06.15 9:05pm
  
  TristEndo, Baron Knoxburry and anewuser liēkd this
Well, folks, as my WCVI NSF entry, Doug's DigiPen Application, suggested, I applied to the BA Game Design program of Redmond's renowned and competitive DigiPen Institute of Technology. I just heard from them tonight — I got in! I begin this fall!

I decided to turn my application into a complicated and fun website, rife with NES chiptune. To see it, just go to dougzwick.com/digipen with the latest version of Google Chrome, Safari or Opera — other browsers are not currently supported. To be honest, the programming of it kinda sucks (no older browser support at all, little graceful fallback, clunky Javascript, etc.), but I'm still proud of it. I plan to improve upon it and use its next, better version in a portfolio of web programming work.

If you can't see (or don't want to bother with) the site, but want to hear the music, you can download it at dougzwick.com/digipen/resources/audio/ost/ost.zip — this includes MP3 renders of the tracks, plus the associated NSF, NSFE and FTM files.
 
 
16126
Level 25 Mixist
gyms
 
 
 
post #16126 :: 2011.06.15 9:31pm
congrats man!! i remember you introducing these a while back @FT forums. so glad to hear you got in :}
 
 
16128
Level 19 Chipist
Modus Ponens
 
 
 
post #16128 :: 2011.06.16 2:23am
Thanks, gyms. I was going to make a similar post on the FT forums, but I suddenly had to go out drinking. I'll do it in the morning.
 
 
16129
Level 23 Chipist
tadpole
 
 
 
post #16129 :: 2011.06.16 4:25am :: edit 2011.06.16 4:25am
  
  Modus Ponens liēkd this
Congrats! If you're going to be in Redmond maybe we can meet up. I live in Bellevue and work in Redmond.
 
 
16133
Level 23 Renderist
anewuser
 
 
 
post #16133 :: 2011.06.16 8:45am
Awesomeness!!
teach those n00bs? XDDDDD indeed teach them :D
Congrats, and the best of luck. Don't forget to spam our OHCS and battles in there hehehehe.
 
 
16134
Level 19 Chipist
Modus Ponens
 
 
 
post #16134 :: 2011.06.16 9:14am
Sadly, there seems to be no academic focus on music at DP, but I will do what I can to make sure that every gamer there (so... everyone there) knows the name Battle of the Bits.

Incidentally, in the electronically-submitted formal part of my application, in the part where one can put one's résumé and list one's awards and recognition and so forth, I included my success in BotB Winter Chip V.
 
 
16202
Level 23 Mixist
iamgreaser
 
 
 
post #16202 :: 2011.06.26 5:34pm
  
  Modus Ponens and Soiled Bargains liēkd this
Be prepared to have your source code contracted to DigiPen in blood.
 
 
16207
Level 28 Chipist
ui
 
 
 
post #16207 :: 2011.06.27 12:09am
nice news and really neat website man!... and music!! :DDD. GL man, and keep coming around your always welcome here, and is nice to hear/see that somehow botb helped you to reach something...
all n00bz!
 
 
16208
Level 19 Chipist
Modus Ponens
 
 
 
post #16208 :: 2011.06.27 9:24am
Thanks, guys. And greaser, I'm going to be sure to be very careful about which ideas I choose to use for games while I'm there.
 
 
16232
Level 0 n00b
Space Core
 
 
post #16232 :: 2011.06.29 2:39am
Congratulations! Now go and murder the teachers of the Narbacular Drop team :|
 
 
16233
Level 25 Mixist
cce
 
 
 
post #16233 :: 2011.06.29 6:56am
Haha, a great application! The intro was really authentic and content was easily accessible. I didn't like the text shadows though :P
 
 
16234
Level 19 Chipist
Modus Ponens
 
 
 
post #16234 :: 2011.06.29 10:05am
I guess I could have had an option to turn off the text shadows the same way that you can change the fonts and colors and stuff. I just like text shadows a lot because they show up in a lot of old video games like Zelda II and stuff.
 
 
16264
Level 30 Chipist
TristEndo
 
 
 
post #16264 :: 2011.07.04 2:33pm
  
  Modus Ponens liēkd this
Great to hear. I was listening to the song the other day and was wondering if you maed it :). I am thinking of going to that school. I just can afford it.
 
 

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